begun with an incident at Toyotomi Hideyoshi's "Thousand-priest Ceremony" (千僧供養) for the dedication of the Daibutsu-den at Hōkō-ji in 1595. Priests of all...

56-centimetre (22 in) in height, which are known as "thousand monks cauldrons" (千僧灶) for its capacity of cooking 200-kilogram (440 lb) of rice each time. The...